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CRI vs. PVH, COLM, HBI, GIII, OXM, MOV, FOSL, VRA, TPR, and RL

Should you be buying Carter's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carter's include PVH (PVH), Columbia Sportswear (COLM), Hanesbrands (HBI), G-III Apparel Group (GIII), Oxford Industries (OXM), Movado Group (MOV), Fossil Group (FOSL), Vera Bradley (VRA), Tapestry (TPR), and Ralph Lauren (RL). These companies are all part of the "apparel accessories & luxury goods" industry.

Carter's vs.

Carter's (NYSE:CRI) and PVH (NYSE:PVH) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.

PVH has higher revenue and earnings than Carter's. Carter's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PVH, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Carter's$2.81B0.42$232.50M$4.527.16
PVH$8.65B0.46$663.60M$10.567.89

Carter's pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. PVH pays an annual dividend of $0.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Carter's pays out 22.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PVH pays out 1.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Carter's has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Carter's is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

PVH has a net margin of 8.13% compared to Carter's' net margin of 8.11%. Carter's' return on equity of 27.15% beat PVH's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Carter's8.11% 27.15% 9.61%
PVH 8.13%13.66%6.35%

97.3% of PVH shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Carter's shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of PVH shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Carter's currently has a consensus price target of $36.80, suggesting a potential upside of 13.65%. PVH has a consensus price target of $106.47, suggesting a potential upside of 27.80%. Given PVH's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PVH is more favorable than Carter's.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Carter's
3 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.40
PVH
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60

Carter's has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PVH has a beta of 1.81, meaning that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, PVH had 4 more articles in the media than Carter's. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for PVH and 12 mentions for Carter's. PVH's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Carter's' score of 0.74 indicating that PVH is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Carter's
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
PVH
10 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

PVH received 652 more outperform votes than Carter's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.79% of users gave PVH an outperform vote while only 58.78% of users gave Carter's an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Carter'sOutperform Votes
395
58.78%
Underperform Votes
277
41.22%
PVHOutperform Votes
1047
70.79%
Underperform Votes
432
29.21%

Summary

PVH beats Carter's on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CRI vs. The Competition

MetricCarter'sApparel IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.17B$4.68B$7.86B$19.30B
Dividend Yield8.70%4.01%3.25%3.83%
P/E Ratio5.1414.4815.1134.53
Price / Sales0.421.168.0134.84
Price / Cash6.3812.7016.3717.51
Price / Book1.413.024.774.69
Net Income$232.50M$183.11M$257.85M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-12.66%0.15%-1.44%-2.43%
1 Month Performance-13.14%11.96%6.47%6.27%
1 Year Performance-51.08%-11.36%-1.86%5.78%

Carter's Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CRI
Carter's
2.8248 of 5 stars
$32.38
+0.8%
$36.80
+13.7%
-51.5%$1.17B$2.81B5.1415,500Positive News
Gap Down
PVH
PVH
4.8263 of 5 stars
$79.00
+6.1%
$103.00
+30.4%
-25.1%$4.16B$8.65B6.4331,000
COLM
Columbia Sportswear
2.9927 of 5 stars
$69.59
+5.3%
$70.00
+0.6%
-23.2%$3.84B$3.38B17.989,450Positive News
Analyst Revision
HBI
Hanesbrands
2.9062 of 5 stars
$5.33
+4.8%
$5.20
-2.3%
+1.9%$1.88B$3.51B-5.7951,000News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
GIII
G-III Apparel Group
2.3975 of 5 stars
$27.99
+5.9%
$32.20
+15.0%
-1.4%$1.23B$3.18B7.353,600Positive News
OXM
Oxford Industries
3.5642 of 5 stars
$58.43
+8.7%
$59.00
+1.0%
-48.5%$868.56M$1.52B65.654,700Positive News
Gap Down
MOV
Movado Group
4.8967 of 5 stars
$16.71
+9.8%
$36.25
+116.9%
-36.3%$371.58M$653.38M16.071,300Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
FOSL
Fossil Group
0.9296 of 5 stars
$1.31
flat
N/A+8.4%$70.24M$1.14B-0.566,900Gap Down
VRA
Vera Bradley
0.8533 of 5 stars
$2.09
+11.8%
N/A-72.3%$58.35M$371.97M-3.542,490
TPR
Tapestry
4.3705 of 5 stars
$82.56
+5.8%
$82.22
-0.4%
+90.4%$17.09B$6.88B23.9318,100Positive News
RL
Ralph Lauren
3.7038 of 5 stars
$264.65
+6.4%
$272.14
+2.8%
+68.9%$16.35B$6.95B24.1522,200Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Analyst Downgrade
Buyback Announcement
Gap Down

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This page (NYSE:CRI) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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